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Schools in England could be hit by strikes in July if teachers vote for action over the education white paper. The NUT union was set to begin a strike ballot next Monday.
Glasgow janitors working for council-owned firm Cordia escalated their dispute this week with a five-day walkout from Monday.
The first housing protest since the Tories’ new Housing and Planning Act became law took place in Islington, north London, last Saturday.
Talks with health secretary Jeremy Hunt came as junior doctors met for their conference. The conference reflected a mood to fight—and possible dangers, reports Tomáš Tengely-Evans
Right wing rags attacked the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) over abortion this week.
Refuse workers at Tory-run South Ayrshire council walked out on Thursday of last week.
“Tories in meltdown” ran a headline in the Sunday Times newspaper last week. The story said, “As party unity crumbles, Boris Johnson may be back to seize Cameron’s job”.
Britain’s draconian immigration controls were tightened last week with the passage of the Tories’ Immigration Act 2016.
Around 60,000 UCU union members in universities were set to begin a two-day strike on Wednesday of next week. Workers want a decent pay rise and an end to inequality in pay – particularly for women and casualised staff.
The senior police officers and solicitor involved in South Yorkshire Police’s (SYP) response to the Hillsborough disaster and the Battle of Orgreave have been named.
Workers at the National Museum Wales entered the third week of an all-out strike this week as politicians wrangled over who would lead the Welsh government.
Fast food workers from Britain and New Zealand held a meeting on fighting zero hours’ contracts in London last Saturday.
It couldn’t be clearer that there is a chance to topple Cameron over the EU vote—but Labour is throwing the chance away. It should be boosting the left exit campaign.
Pressing issues face delegates at the PCS union conference this week.
Chilean exiles and their supporters protested in London last Friday in solidarity with peasants fighting to survive an environmental disaster in southern Chile.
Hundreds of trains were cancelled as train guards struck on Wednesday. Bosses want them to bring in more money but the guards fear for passenger safety
Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt gloated in the House of Commons today, Thursday, that the junior doctors’ dispute “was resolved with a historic agreement.” But many junior doctors are frustrated that the British Medical Association (BMA) and Hunt cobbled together a rotten new deal.
Workers at a food producer in Sheffield began a 48 hour strike today, Thursday, with a picket running day and night at the site to turn back lorries.
Speakers from the international left put the case for a left exit from the European Union at a rally in London yesterday, Wednesday.
Speakers from the international left put the case for a left exit from the European Union at a rally in London yesterday, Wednesday.
Blockades, strikes and protests against the French government’s attack on workers’ rights caused huge disruption this week. Workers and activists are out to shut down the economy.
About 1,000 people demonstrated outside County Hall in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, today, Friday against fracking.
Over 350 people marched against library cuts in Lewisham today, Saturday, as a strike shut four of the south London borough's seven libraries.
An angry crowd of anti-fracking protestors from around Britain vowed to fight on today, Monday, as Tory-controlled North Yorkshire County Council accepted Barclays-backed Third Energy's application to frack at Kirby Misperton in Ryedale.
Campaigners told Sadie Robinson the Tories’ retreat doesn’t mean the threat to state schools has gone away
Two student unions have disaffiliated from the National Union of Students (NUS) as part of a campaign to undermine its new left wing leadership.
Road blocks and picket lines went up around ports, oil refineries, industrial estates and distribution centres across France on Monday night and Tuesday morning.
Over 150 activists seized during the crackdown on the protest movement against Egypt’s sale of its Tiran and Sanafir islands to Saudi Arabia have been given long jail sentences and heavy fines.
Norbert Hofer of the fascist Freedom Party (FPO) came within a few thousand votes of becoming Austria’s president in Sunday’s election.
In its first days in office, Brazil’s new government led by president Michel Temer has already faced spirited opposition.
David Cameron’s description of Nigeria and Afghanistan as “fantastically corrupt”, on the sidelines of the bosses’ anti-corruption summit in London last week, was extraordinarily hypocritical.
Dave Sewell begins a series on issues raised by the European Union referendum, which will take place on Thursday 23 June
I’ve been in Istanbul participating in the Marxism 2016 festival organised by the Revolutionary Socialist Workers Party (DSIP). Turkey's politics has undergone an astonishing reversal over the past year.
As robots begin to do more of the jobs traditionally done by people, Tomáš Tengely-Evans asks if the relationship between worker and machine has fundamentally changed
A group of construction workers has won millions of pounds in compensation from eight construction firms this week.
A film about a college baseball team would normally be painful watching, but Everybody Wants Some!! is a funny ode to growing up, writes Andriana Sotiris
Pioneering American photographer Paul Strand gets the recognition that he richly deserves in this new exhibition.
Fans of 90s psychedelic rock band The Stone Roses have waited over twenty years for new material.
Netflix’s new drama Rebellion, set during the 1916 Easter Rising, has been greeted with much hype. Some of it is justified.
Don’t be like Tony Blair—whose war killed a million Iraqis, who lost Labour four million votes, and who paved the way for NHS privatisation.
This week’s queen’s speech will bring more attacks on ordinary people.
Police organised a rehearsal of a terrorist attack at the Trafford Centre near Manchester on Tuesday. A man dressed in black played the part of a suicide bomber. He shouted “Allah Akbar!” three times before a simulated explosion.
‘Wardrobes painted red and snubbed breakfast.’
While many an MP likes an expense to claim, it seems a few are less keen on declaring them.
Under the dictatorship of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi socialists and the left are bearing the brunt of the crackdown on protest—mobilising international solidarity is crucial, writes Charlie Kimber